60NYT > Missing Personstopics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/m/missing_persons/index.html?rss=1News about Missing Persons, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.Copyright 2014 The New York Times Companyen-usTue 03 Mar 2015 17:52:46 -0500http://static01.nyt.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gifNYThttp://www.nytimes.comJurors in Patz Case View Suspect’s First Confessionhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/nyregion/as-jury-views-suspects-confession-more-questions-arise-in-patz-murder-case.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/nyregion/as-jury-views-suspects-confession-more-questions-arise-in-patz-murder-case.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/24/nyregion/PATZweb2/PATZweb2-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>A 2012 video shows a distraught Pedro Hernandez being encouraged and consoled by officers as he admitted that he choked 6-year-old Etan Patz until the boy passed out.By JAMES C. McKINLEY JrTue, 24 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/nyregion/as-jury-views-suspects-confession-more-questions-arise-in-patz-murder-case.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssEtan Patz’s Mother Speaks in Court of the Day He Disappearedhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/nyregion/etan-patzs-mother-speaks-in-court-of-the-day-her-son-disappeared.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/nyregion/etan-patzs-mother-speaks-in-court-of-the-day-her-son-disappeared.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/03/nyregion/Patz/Patz-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Julie Patz testified about the tragedy that would come to define much of her life and identity: the disappearance of her son in 1979.By JAMES C. McKINLEY JrTue, 03 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/nyregion/etan-patzs-mother-speaks-in-court-of-the-day-her-son-disappeared.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMexico Officially Declares Missing Students Deadhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/world/americas/mexico-officially-declares-missing-students-dead.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssFour months after the students were abducted, Mexico’s attorney general said confessions and forensic evidence supported the theory that their bodies were incinerated near a garbage dump.By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLDWed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/world/americas/mexico-officially-declares-missing-students-dead.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssSuspect Held in Disappearance of 43 Mexican Studentshttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/americas/suspect-in-disappearance-of-43-mexican-students-is-held.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/americas/suspect-in-disappearance-of-43-mexican-students-is-held.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/01/18/world/18MEXICO/18MEXICO-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Felipe Rodríguez Salgado, the leader of the criminal group that prosecutors believe killed the students, was being questioned.By ELISABETH MALKINSat, 17 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/americas/suspect-in-disappearance-of-43-mexican-students-is-held.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMissing New Jersey Man Is Found Dead in the Trunk of His Carhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/nyregion/missing-new-jersey-man-is-found-dead-in-the-trunk-of-his-car.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssPolice officers patrolling in the Bronx discovered the car of Jordan Johnson, 24, who was last seen leaving his apartment in Fort Lee on Tuesday.By ASHLEY SOUTHALLFri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/nyregion/missing-new-jersey-man-is-found-dead-in-the-trunk-of-his-car.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMexico: Body of Kidnapped Priest Is Foundhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/world/americas/mexico-body-of-kidnapped-priest-is-found.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssState prosecutors in Guerrero opened an investigation Friday into the slaying of the Rev. Gregorio López Gorostieta, whose body was found on Christmas Day.By ELISABETH MALKINSat, 27 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/world/americas/mexico-body-of-kidnapped-priest-is-found.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssAutistic White Plains Boy, Visiting South Carolina, Is Found Dead in a Pondhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/nyregion/autistic-boy-on-a-visit-found-dead-in-a-pond.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe boy, 4, who was autistic and nonverbal, wandered away from his grandmother&#8217;s house in South Carolina on Christmas Eve.By KENNETH ROSENSat, 27 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/nyregion/autistic-boy-on-a-visit-found-dead-in-a-pond.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssRage and Sorrow Flow as Student in Mexico Is Declared Deadhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/world/americas/rage-and-sorrow-flow-as-student-is-declared-dead.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/world/americas/rage-and-sorrow-flow-as-student-is-declared-dead.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/12/08/world/jp-mexico/jp-mexico-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>On Sunday, Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam confirmed that a laboratory in Austria had matched a bone fragment found among charred remains to Alexander Mora’s DNA.By PAULINA VILLEGAS and RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLDMon, 08 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/world/americas/rage-and-sorrow-flow-as-student-is-declared-dead.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssRemains of Student in Mexico Identifiedhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/world/americas/remains-of-student-in-mexico-identified.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/world/americas/remains-of-student-in-mexico-identified.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/12/07/world/americas/07MEXICO2/07MEXICO2-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>A lab’s finding lends credence to a theory that the police abducted 43 students and turned them over to a drug gang, which killed them.By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD and PAULINA VILLEGASSun, 07 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/world/americas/remains-of-student-in-mexico-identified.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssAfter Retreat on Rolling Stone Article, Virginia Campus Still Uneasyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/after-retreat-on-rolling-stone-article-virginia-campus-still-uneasy.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/after-retreat-on-rolling-stone-article-virginia-campus-still-uneasy.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/12/07/us/VIRGINIA/VIRGINIA-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Students have endured a tumultuous semester: the disappearance of a sophomore, two suicides and an article about an alleged gang rape that put the university in the center of a national debate.By ALAN SCHWARZSun, 07 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/after-retreat-on-rolling-stone-article-virginia-campus-still-uneasy.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss